When Tshetsholo Naro and his friend Sanjoy Sondhi had gone out looking for butterflies on a hot June morning, they didn’t have any idea that they were going to be a part of history... Read more
Northeast India, being the bio-diversity hotspot of the country, is home to innumerable orchid species. In fact, the region is counted amongst the eight hottest biodiversity hotspo... Read more
A ‘breeding loan’ arrangement between Assam State Zoo and Nagaland Zoo has helped conserve the Himalayan serow, an endangered wildlife species. The Assam Zoo recently witnessed the... Read more
With 32.07% of its total geographical area under bamboo cover, Mizoram accounts for 14% of the bamboo cultivation in India. This was highlighted during a seminar ‘Bamboo Composite... Read more
Manipur’s Central Agricultural University (CAU) has announced to develop 20 model fruit villages in the entire Northeast to boost the economy of underprivileged farmers, informed t... Read more
Dr Sosang Longkumer, a young scientist from Nagaland has successfully cultivated and produced exotic shiitake mushroom in Nagaland. Sharing about his achievement, Dr Longkumer stat... Read more
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Guwahati recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Pollution Control Board Assam (PCBA). The MoU was signed under the National C... Read more
Assam is home to 20 species of freshwater turtles and tortoises, out of 29 species present in India. Recently, about 70 hatchlings of the Black Softshell and Indian Softshell turtl... Read more
For many districts in Assam, fluoride and arsenic contamination in groundwater has been a major cause of concern, which is now slated to be eliminated. The Indian Institute of Tech... Read more
Five more species of fish were discovered from Arunachal Pradesh by a fisheries and aquatic ecology research team led by Prof DN Das from Rajiv Gandhi University (RGU) recently. Th... Read more
